wireless internet keeps dropping

Nitridex

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hey, i have a actiontec modem (shown here. http://www.actiontec.com/products/product.php?pid=187) and Ive been using wireless internet for about 1 year now. About once every hour it will cut out and be disabled for about 2-4 minutes. This is very annoying because it messes up all of my downloads, and im constantly downloading things. Anyone know why this is? i have Verizon dsl.
 
What your describing is pretty typical of a mdoem that justs having a little trouble and needs to be reset. I would make sure that you know what your settings are on the DSL wireless gateway. Then press and hold the reset button that's normally in the back of the device and needs to be pushed in with a pen or paperclip. Testor your settings that you wrote down before resting the gateway and your problem should be fixed. If that doesn't fix it could be the router overheating and it needs to be replaced. Also have to wonder if it's Version putting a stop to what I have to imagine is exessive bandwith usage.
 
What your describing is pretty typical of a mdoem that justs having a little trouble and needs to be reset. I would make sure that you know what your settings are on the DSL wireless gateway. Then press and hold the reset button that's normally in the back of the device and needs to be pushed in with a pen or paperclip. Testor your settings that you wrote down before resting the gateway and your problem should be fixed. If that doesn't fix it could be the router overheating and it needs to be replaced. Also have to wonder if it's Version putting a stop to what I have to imagine is exessive bandwith usage.

Thanks lawson, my son's laptop is connected to the same Westel router and it's working fine,mine the wireless is fine if only use the xpsp1 that came with my laptop, only when i upgrade it, it works fine with all updates if i connect through the Ethernet port,seems to me that it does't like all those security stuff or a conflict with the DSL suite security.
 
got good connection but no antivirus

Thank you: i finelly got my wireless connection going good;keep (your fingers crossed)i removed the Verizon suite protection last night, did not restart nothing i did shutdown and went to bed thinking that in the morning i would make full recovery and start fresh,but when i turned on the laptop tried to connect and it requested my WEP KEY, i put it in and it connected right away and has been running ever since without any fails. So i assume that verizon dsl security suite has conflicts with Windows firewall now i have SP2 only,now i have micrsolft fire wall but no antivirus,and i'm afraid to download sp3 and get all this drops again, because one time i had sp3 intalled and i removed Verizon protection suite and it did not solve the problem, .Unless i did not do the right thing, any more tips and make me beleive that if i download Sp3 it wont start all over again,i've already made about 6 recoverys altogether,hope all this full recoverys wont wear off my hard drive? thanks in advance.
 
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